Day: May 12, 2018

On its website, Apple talks up the butterfly mechanism. Screenshot by CNET If you’re having problems with your MacBook keyboard, you’re not alone. And now the issue may be heading to court. A class-action complaint filed Friday says people who bought a MacBook or MacBook Pro equipped with Apple’s “butterfly” keyboard “face a constant threat…

The tech giant answered some of the lawmakers’ concerns in a statement, telling CNET that “Amazon takes privacy and security seriously, and FreeTime on Alexa is no different.” It explained that parents have the ability to delete children’s recordings not only from the device, but also from its servers, and that no developers outside the…

Photo: Getty Google is well aware that YouTube is the internet’s biggest time suck, sending users down endless rabbit holes of related videos. Now, as part of the company’s apparent newfound interest in digital wellbeing, it’s introducing a feature that will encourage people to step away from the endless stream of videos—but only if they…

Inti Creates and developer Koji Igarashi have announced Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon – a retro 8-bit style action game based on the upcoming Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. The single-player title will release digitally on May 24 for $9.99 on PlayStation 4, PS Vita, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo 3DS, and Steam. You can check…

Mike Fisher is leaving hockey again. The 37-year-old forward, who came out of retirement in February and helped the Nashville Predators to the brink of the Western Conference finals, announced Saturday that he is hanging his skates up again, this time for good after 18 seasons. “I’ve milked this cow as long as it’ll go,”…

A new generation of Washington influence peddlers are using their actual or perceived proximity to the President to line their pocketsWashington (CNN)A former senior campaign and transition aide to President Donald Trump recently inked a deal to help a Russian oligarch’s conglomerate shed sanctions the Trump administration slapped on them last month. Bryan Lanza, who…

Two U.S. fighter jets intercepted two Russian bombers flying near the western coast of Alaska on Friday, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) said in a statement. The incident happened at 10 a.m. Friday as the Russian jets were flying in the Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) around Alaska’s western coast, north of the…

Seven members of a family, including a mother and her four young children, were killed in a mass shooting that rattled a small Australian community and marked the first such incident in the country in more than 20 years. Authorities in Western Australia responded early Friday morning to a home in Osmington, a rural town nestled…

Campaigners to retain Ireland’s constitutional ban on abortion held their last major rally in Dublin on Saturday, two weeks ahead of a vote on the procedure in one of the few European countries that still outlaws it. The organizers said tens of thousands of abortion opponents demonstrated near Ireland’s legislature, seeking to gather support to keep the…